God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.

I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!